The Awakening of Mahāvairocana 7.4

7.4

增益守護清淨行品第二

and is able to allay the fatigue and pain of hunger and thirst.

He has a good companion leading a pure life or, if he has no

companion,

is always together with sutra scrolls of the wondrous Dharma.

Someone who follows the practices of buddhas and bodhisattvas,

has firm faith-and-understanding in the right Mantra [Vehicle],

Possesses the strength of pure wisdom, is very persevering and

energetic, does not seek the mundane,

Always desires to be resolute, is not timid,

achieves success for self and others in this lifetime,

Does not follow other gods, and is a fearless support—

anyone endowed with these [qualities] is called a good associate.

The Increasing and Guarding

of Pure Conduct

When you have finished preparing the site of accomplishment,

each day dwell first in the wisdom of mindfulness. Lie down to rest according to the rules, and when you get up for the first time,

dispel inexhaustible obstructors. During this night sins born of heedlessness

are carefully purified, and you repent of them all. Your sense organs calmed, endowed with compassion, and with

beneficent thoughts

vow to deliver inexhaustible realms of beings. Bathe according to the rules or, if you do not bathe,

you should make pure your body, speech, and mind. Next, in a chamber for retreat or in an empty and quiet spot scatter

fine flowers as adornment And arrange the images and excellent texts,

or else call to mind the buddhas in the ten directions And visualize them quite clearly in your mind’s eye.

Based on the direction in which your deity resides, You should with utmost sincerity reverently dwell in singlemindedness

and, prostrating yourself on the ground, make obeisance: “I take refuge in the Perfectly Awakened Ones in the ten directions,

all endowed throughout the three ages with the three bodies; I take refuge in the entire Dharma of the Great Vehicle;

I take refuge in the nonregressing multitude [possessing] the

bodhi[-mind]; I take refuge in spells (vidyās) and in true speech (mantras);

I take refuge in all mystic seals;

And with the pure actions of body, speech, and mind

I make obeisance most earnestly with immeasurable reverence.”

The mantra of the expedient means for making obeisance is: Oṃ namaḥ

sarvatathāgatakāyavākcittapādavandanāṃ karomi. (Oṃ, homage! I make

obeisance to the feet of the body, speech, and mind of all Tathāgatas.) [258]

With this mantra for making obeisance,

one is able to make obeisance to all the buddhas of the

ten directions.

[Then] placing your right knee on the ground and clasping your

hands together,

contemplate, confess, and repent your previous sinful actions:

“On account of the accumulations of ignorance

I have committed many sins in the actions of body, speech,

and mind;

Because greed, anger, and stupidity obscured my mind,

before buddhas, the Right Dharma, the Sangha of the Wise and

Holy,

My parents, my two teachers, good friends,

and immeasurable beings

I have in the course of transmigration through beginningless

birth-and-death

committed most grievous and inexhaustible sins,